UNITY OF GOD AND NATURE. 71 
things, and no body is so small but contains a part of the 
divine substance within itself, by which it is animated.” It 
is of this noble idea of God that Goethe says :—“ Certainly 
there does not exist a more beautiful worship of God than 
that which needs no image, but which arises in our heart 
from converse with Nature.” By it we arrive at the sublime 
idea of the Unity of God and Nature. 
